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London hotels with a wealth of detailed posts, 2013 - 2017
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London Hotel Recommendations (newer consolidated thread)
Jan 29, 2019, 10:39 pm
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Jan 30, 2019, 12:59 am
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Jan 30, 2019, 1:01 am
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Jan 30, 2019, 1:23 am
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Too bad you couldn't buy the hotel and fire the offenders!! That's just awful to see blatant (or casual?) racism happening at a hotel like Claridges.
Last edited by Aventine; Jan 30, 2019 at 3:45 am
Jan 30, 2019, 3:08 am
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.. Google it ? Not stay there either since G-CIVC has posted what happened to them .But if you do , perhaps be ready to buy the hotel to rid the discrimination ..
Obviously , the folks there have not watched CRA either .
( Unless one is a CRA or is one of the characters portrayed , or has attended one of the schools mentioned or a public school for that matter , one might think some of it is far fetched .. ; much to glean in between the lines and dialects used too , one just might not “ get it “ . And if you are wondering , the hotel in the opening scene is not in London either
but has been mentioned in this forum )Try the Connaught
Last edited by FlyerEC; Jan 30, 2019 at 6:58 pm
Jan 30, 2019, 5:57 am
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I got a heavy dose of general snootiness (not racism) maybe 8 years ago at Claridge's and would never return. We were coming off a three leg, hours delayed flight from the South Pacific, not looking our spiffiest. I could literally hear the sniff when we presented ourselves. We never went back and took a decent amount of corporate business with us. Hotels need to understand that ONE incident on the part of ONE staff member can live forever in memory and on the interweb and worse, FT. Training, folks!
Jan 30, 2019, 6:01 am
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BENLEE : Suggest you watch the movie , easier than reading the book .. Google it ? Not stay there either since G-CIVC has posted what happened to them .
But if you do , perhaps be ready to buy the hotel to rid the discrimination ..
Obviously , the folks there have not watched CRA either .
Try the Connaught
.. Google it ? Not stay there either since G-CIVC has posted what happened to them .But if you do , perhaps be ready to buy the hotel to rid the discrimination ..
Obviously , the folks there have not watched CRA either .
Try the Connaught
BTW I decided to try the Connaught.
Last edited by BENLEE; Jan 30, 2019 at 6:12 am
Jan 30, 2019, 6:22 am
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The Connaught, Claridges and The Berkeley are all owned by Maybourne, with staff regularly moving in between properties. In just the last year, the DoR and Hotel Manager at The Connaught have moved to Claridges (in the HM case, he was moving back), and The Berkeley's Hotel Manager and other front office management has moved to The Connaught. If you're determined to avoid any of the staff, you would be best avoiding the group entirely.
Jan 31, 2019, 10:19 am
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Feb 1, 2019, 2:20 pm
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The others:
Savoy: I do not even own clothing that would meet the standard for this place.
Bulgari: I'm not in the proper caste to even LOOK at the spa, let alone get help from the porters for my luggage.
Connaught: Had to show my key to use the lobby bathroom. ... that irritated me a little.
Feb 1, 2019, 4:11 pm
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I'm always surprised with comments about snobbery in London hotels, particularly around dress code. To be clear, I am not saying I don't believe it, I just have never experienced anything like it in my 7 years of regularly staying in them, which by now covers almost every luxury hotel and probably around 500 nights. I started staying when I was 25, when they would have been right to look down on my peasant status.
As @DSI, @FlyerEC, @bhrubin and @Groombridge can attest, being well dressed is not something they will write about on my tombstone. In fact, you will most likely find me in a hoodie, which in England is associated with, well, let me have Wikipedia say it best.
As @DSI, @FlyerEC, @bhrubin and @Groombridge can attest, being well dressed is not something they will write about on my tombstone. In fact, you will most likely find me in a hoodie, which in England is associated with, well, let me have Wikipedia say it best.
By the 21st century, it had gained a negative image, being associated with trouble-making teens and anti-social behaviour. It became one of the later items associated with "chavs", or Neds.